The Communicator (IPFW)

Infobox_Newspaper
name = IPFW Communicator


type = Student newspaper
format = Broadsheet
foundation = 1969
ceased publication =
price = Free
owners = IPSN Inc.
publisher = Matt McClure
editor = Said El-Dajani
political =
headquarters = Fort Wayne, Indiana USA
website = [http://www.ipfwcommunicator.org IPFW Communicator]

"The Communicator", a 5,000 weekly circulation, is the student newspaper of IPFW (Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne). IPFW has over 11,000 full and part-time students and has grown considerably over the past ten years. "The Communicator" itself has changed by leaps and bounds in the past several years. In Spring 2005, editor Andrew Welfle instituted a major redesign involving the use of the font Frutiger for major headlines and borderless, clean designs, favoring a thin rule line instead of boxes.

Basic Stats

Publishing house: Kendallville Publishing CompanyPublishing software: Adobe InDesign running on Apple Computer's Mac OS XPresident of Indiana Purdue Student Newspapers board of directors (The Communicator's parent organization): Tracy Warner

Features

The paper, as previously mentioned, has undergone many changes since the turn of the millennium with many different editors. The paper has changed in size and become much smaller and compact. The sections have mostly stayed the same, with Student Life being added and subtracted many times over the years. Major changes include the implementation of "Arts & Entertainment" as a replacement to "Features" during the summer of 2003 and the more recent addition of the "Politics & Money" section.

The paper, in coordination with CollegeHoopsNet (a world wide web top-5 source for college basketball) broke a big national story in 2005 when the school hired Dane Fife as their head basketball coach, making him the youngest coach currently at a Division I level. The story was broke on the website by Senior Writer Dan Vance, with the assistance of sports writers Nick West and Justin Kenny.

In the spring of 2006, the paper made news by printing the controversial cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad under editor-in-chief Brianna Belford and her editorial board. They were one of the few American papers to do such at the time and just the fourth college newspaper in the country to do so.

Highly Notable Awards (since 2000)

*2007 Division II Newspaper of the Year - Indiana Collegiate Press Association
*2006 Best of Show Honorable Mention - Associated Collegiate Press
*2006 Division II Newspaper of the Year Runner-Up - Indiana Collegiate Press Association
*2006 Advertising Newspaper of the Year Runner-Up - Indiana Collegiate Press Association
*2004 Nick Altman, Cartoon/Illustration Honorable Mention - Columbia Scholastic Press Association
*2004 Dan Vance and Eugene Harding, Single Subject Black & White Honorable Mention - Columbia Scholastic Press Association

Notable Alumni

*IPFW Director of Alumni Relations Jennifer Bosk helped to found the paper in 1969.
*United States Congressman Mark Souder

Editors in chief (2002-Present)

*Said El-Dajani, fall 2008-present
*Jessie Ruckman, fall 2007-spring 2008
*Jenna Lauber, spring 2007
*Tracy Kerns, fall 2006
*Brianna Belford, spring 2006
*Anthony Maurer, fall 2005
*Andrew Welfle, spring 2005
*Scott M. Lawson, fall 2003/spring 2004-fall 2004
*Dan Vance, summer/fall 2003
*Renee Thompson, spring 2003
*Kathy Delagrange, spring 2002-fall 2002

External links

* [http://www.ipfwcommunicator.org/ Official site]